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Local college receives a piece of Sandia/California history

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia has successfully transferred its original LENS® machine to Las Positas College for use in the college's welding department. LENS, or Laser Engineered Net Shaping, is a modern technique that can fabricate three-dimensional, prototype metallic parts out of virtually any metal alloy.

The drive toward hydrogen vehicles just got shorter

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have revealed a new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound ammonia borane. The breakthrough makes hydrogen a more attractive fuel for vehicles and other transportation modes.

Journal: Science

Sandia seeds culture of nuclear energy safety and security

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The growing interest among Middle Eastern nations in establishing nuclear power programs prompted a Sandia National Laboratories team to conceive and lead development of a new institute that will seed and cultivate a regional culture of responsible nuclear energy management.

Sandia seeds culture of nuclear energy safety and security

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The growing interest among Middle Eastern nations in establishing nuclear power programs prompted a Sandia National Laboratories team to conceive and lead development of a new The Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute, the product of three years of planning and negotiations, opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, welcoming its inaugural class of Emirati nuclear professionals for a 12-week pilot.

Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent -- an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with steam turbines, or a 40 percent improvement for simple gas turbines. The system is also very compact, meaning that capital costs would be relatively low.

LAMMPS supercomputer code developer earns special recognition

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Plimpton, who led development of a widely used computer code that models how materials behave, has been invited to present a keynote lecture at the Feb. 27-March 3 Minerals, Materials & Materials Society meeting in San Diego.

Meeting: Minerals, Materials & Materials Society Meeting

Dry lake reveals evidence of southwestern 'megadroughts'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

There's an old saying that if you don't like the weather in New Mexico, wait five minutes. Maybe it should be amended to 10,000 years, according to new research. In a letter published recently in the journal Nature, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and an international team of scientists report that the Southwest region of the United States undergoes "megadroughts" -- warmer, more arid periods lasting hundreds of years or longer.

Journal: Nature

Sandia security experts help Kazakhstan safely transport, store Soviet-era bomb materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories team helped reach a major milestone in the nation's nuclear nonproliferation efforts by working with the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan to move nuclear materials -- enough to build an estimated 775 nuclear weapons -- to safety.

LANL to certify automated influenza surveillance system

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A compact, self-contained, automated system for surveillance and screening of potential pandemic strains of influenza and other deadly infectious diseases is a step closer to reality, thanks to an agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, and HighRes Biosolutions of Boston.

Sandia engineering sciences director Duane Dimos elected AAAS Fellow

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Duane Dimos, director of Sandia's Engineering Sciences Center 1500, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific association.